Say Anything Blog

I think it’s a given that bloggers and blog readers are far more informed about current events than the average person.  This goes for people on the right and even on the left.

After all they do spend ALL their free time discussing current events on the ‘net.

Being a reporter does not mean that someone’s judgement is any better than a person that works for a living. 

Speaking of being informed.  I ran into a local legislature a while ago and started discussing local budget issues.  I was far more informed on the budget issues in ND than this guy who will have a say in the actual budget that’s adopted.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

That’s basically what blogs are.  Just forums for discussions among citizens, as well as tools for political activism.

What does this guy have against that?

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I just read that article and I must say that it is as fine an example of elitist snobbery as I have ever read. Part of me wants to get angry over this guy’s holier than thou attitude and say something like, “Who the eff do you think you are and who do you think you’re talking to, you psuedo-intellectual limp wristed bed wetter?”

But of course, being mature I would never say something like that. I would never say, “Eat shit you self important snob.” I’m much too grown up for that.

So I’ll just settle for pointing out that the blogs are what keep needle dicks like this in the main stream media from getting out of hand and convincing their readers that their point of view is the only one worth listening to. Oh, and that blogs brought down Dan Rather, exposed Reuters fauxtography, and are right now kicking the high and mighty AP squarely in the nads over bad reporting.

So, nope. I won’t call this guy names or say that I suspect he’s an insecure mama’s boy with a huge ego and a small....nope. I won’t say it.

I think this guy put me in a bad mood.

Election ‘08 - We Are So Screwed

The ugly reality here is that all journalism simply consists of someone writing something each day that he thinks might be of interest to others.  By that measure, we’re all journalists of one type or another.

Are some weblogs garbage?  Absolutely.  Some papers are garbage, like the Star-Tribune or the LA times, too.  Does that eliminate the need for the WSJ?

Interestingly, he almost catches on to the real impact of weblogs; “catching the scraps” the papers leave behind.  He seems to see that as an insult, but whenever I read a paper, I tend to wonder why the journalist didn’t ask some basic questions.  Weblogs tend to do that very well, and it’s questions like that which make them effective--questions like “Hey, can a 1960s era typewriter do that kind of typesetting, kerning, and so on?”

Of course, if journalists asked those basic questions, there wouldn’t be that need.  I’ll be waiting, but not holding my breath.

Yesterday I could not spell journalist. Today I are one.

I’m headed over to WSJ and read this fine journalistic opinion piece, written by Mr Rago. Then I will most likely express my opinion about it to the WSJ.

For $100 per year the very least I could do is drop them a line, let ‘em know how I, consumer, feel abot this portion of their product.

See? In the “BLOGOSPHERE” I would just tell the “BLOGGER” what I thought about their fine journalistic opinion piece. In the “MSM”, not so much.

Perhaps Mr Rago has a web log I could address my opinion on. NAW!! That would be, perhaps, to plebeian an activity for such a highly educated paragon of journalism.

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